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DAMMIT where was my invite beyotch? u still has my consult cable too *sob* all good. i dont think i'd have been walking after your effort there. and the wine would have made me puke on ur carpet oh well i did however have a nice kangaroo steak this evening. cant top that now, can ya? -D

That sucks man. Sorry to hear it. Especially tragic that it was unnecessary.. condolances to all involved only the good die young -D

sounds like penis envy over your vinyls yo -D

heh great minds. i had one of those a couple hours ago, but i also had fried mushroom in butter, fresh parsley and a slice of cheese to top it off > and runny yolk ftw -D

Well I finally bit the bullet and ordered the first stage of my PC upgrade... Settled on the following : Intel i7 920 CPU ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Motherboard OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Platinum 12GB Memory Kit Powercolor 4890 1GB PCIe Videocard OCZ GameXStream 850W SLI Power Supply Coolermaster V8 CPU Heatsink + lga1366 Bracket wasnt particularly cheap, just a tad over $1800... going to upgrade to the dual raid0 ssd's like luke suggested but probably not until oct22 (when I can score win7 oem at the same time)... should also be able to overclock the cpu to 3.8ghz up from the stock 2.26 with those particular components (and the heatsink is bloody massive) still got monitor, keyboard, terabyte hdd's, headset mic, etc etc to go but that can wait till I need to upgrade. Cant wait for the postie this week -D

You'll get a sequential photograph set with the fine if they decide to fine you for it. If you were over the line before the light went red then I wouldnt be too worried because you'll be safe. Light has to be red before u cross the light for u to get the fine.. -D

the only part thats missionary about that email is the missionary position hes gonna have u in vu ;P -D

r u building a train track bro? -D

yo chaddles, be a pal and sell me those 34 rims cheap when u upgrade yo -D

same -D

He only puked because his superhuman digestive system detected some xanax and rohypnol and his ubermenschen instincts caused him to retch the vile filth back up, lest he be molested by some unholy fiend -D

Yeah, did you see the damage his helmet copped? No doubt it saved his skin. Dude had multiple fractures, couldnt open his eye and was in an induced coma... And it was a suspension bit, reminds me of Ayrton Sennas untimely demise... -D

Yep. We can agree on that article tho. they dont use any of the above What google is doing is a meta-cluster beowulf clusters were the norm but google have their own system and protocol. each machine functions like a hdd functions in a raid10. its just a simple block in a huge ass mainframe spread over a google cluster best thing about these clusters is that they dont need fast hard drives, fast cpus, fast raid controllers, memory or any such thing. by dint of their number, they have a stupendous amount of bandwidth and that overrides anything a single computer can advance -D

not sure eh, but I can guarantee you theyre not using any of the following a) external hdd's b) raid arrays c) floppy discs d) usb flash sticks e) solid state drives f) removable disk caddies g) blue ray and you're comparing my needs to google. I'm flattered but the argument is seriously invalid ;P -D

None of my siblings have children and I dont let children of any sort near my equipment. Children are like germs, you take precautions and they dont get to infect your stuff. Furthermore tapes are stored in a locked fireproof safe, germs 0 safe 1. lol this isnt a commodore 64 using analogue tape. This is helical scanned dat. If any mechanical error was to happen, then the manufacturer would cover it under warranty. And as for the more immediate concern about getting the data backed up, an external HDD is acceptable in short term. Turnaround for a broken tape drive is around 3 days, if you had to use an ext HDD as a stop gap measure for a fortnight, I'd be surprised -D

uhh? 50 odd gigs of bestiality porn fyi steve and no you cant have a copy I've already stated, 50 gigs or less. Rotated on a weekly basis with Monthy major backups. blu ray doesnt cut it and neither does any ssd or hdd based system, and forget NAS. i dont want to spend 10 hours a day doing networked based backups... -D

Can always put the swap file on the mirrored terabyte drives, or put the fastest CF card ~ 24 gigs size (assuming swap = 2*Ram and Im going for 12gig) and a CF to IDE adaptor... thats just a thought mind, I dont know how fast the fastest flash disk is, but if you get such an adaptor and the cards are cheap enough you can simply ditch the card every couple of years or, get the 30gb version of one of the drives as the swap partition But having said that, even using the most agressive algorithm, the average ssd is projected to last 7-8 years generally, which is more than most magnetic platter based hard drives can boast. I think i'd raid 0 them and split the swap file over 2 drives and take my luck - like steve says, dont keep anything on the c:/striped drive that you dont need and everything will be fine. I'm only just upgrading my system now after 5 years. I know how to make a system last, and I can bet that the ssd's I'd buy today will still be fine 5 years down the track... just means after a couple of years I'll have to have a mini upgrade, but it can easily be done -D Edit - Give me a viable alternative steve and I'll consider it. Until I see anything worthy, its all rhetoric.

Yeah that does. for $300 i could get that 60gb drive as opposed to the 150 raptor for $220, and the write speeds are better.. Cool. 60gb SSD and Windows 7 instead of raptor. $80 more but also a decent amount more speed. Cheers for posting the benchmarks yo -D

Got any figures as to read/write speeds? SSD's always win on latency and seek, but I'd like to see the write speed especially, see how your SSD's write speed will compare to a 150gb Raptor... are the AAKS drives the 'black' series or the AV series ? -D

Thought has crossed my mind.... atm my boot drive is 36 gigs and I really dont need a huge amount bigger... problem is the 32gb Kingston E is $559 the raptor is 150gb and $220 I invested in a 32gb ssd for my eee 901 and that made it at least 4 times faster... SSD's arent bad but for the cost, its just not worth it... yet.. -D

lol. never use raid0 is my humble advice. i'd even go so far as to say never trust software (chipset) raid too but tbh I cant justify a hardware raid card... and SAS only is worth doing when u get a decent controller - the motherboard I'm after DOES have a version with SAS but the reports for the SAS performance with that x58 chipset have been disappointing to say the least- not worth the 1/2 capacity and twice price ($220 for 10krpm 150gb Raptor SATA vs $329 for 15krpm 74gb Seagate Cheetah SAS) OS on 150gb Raptor, 10kRPM Data on Raid1, 1TB WD AV/24 hour drives Backed up to AIT nightly with the occasional entire TB backup for my pr0- er, dvd rips... tapes are still used Steve, check out any corporation out there, I can guarantee Tape is the only enterprise level backup worth its salt.\ I do actually have a 500gb WD Green drive atm which isnt bad, its very quiet which I like (36gb raptor I have now is loud as). I'll be switching to the AV drives tho cause the PC will be left on 24 hrs a day, probably recording digital tv as well as home security video feeds, bittorrents and the like -D

The tape drive is in addition to Raid. Sure you might say raid 5 is the go, but Ive seen entire arrays get nuked before and people have put all their faith in the HDD's, so I agree with JRM. A backup is not a backup if it is on the same media type however (at least if you're ITIL compliant) so external HDD"s don't cut it for me. Tapes last 10 years. You can write over them around 100 times, but considering I'll be rotating anually and have a daily and a monthly set, thats at most, 50 times the tape will get written to over the course of the year before I retire the media, archive it and move onto the next set. thats 5 tapes (Mon - Fri) with 12 additional tapes to take a monthly snapshot which is then archived. If I wanted backup capacity, I'd raid 5 a bunch of SSD's (provided I also had a crapload of spare cash - $900 per 250gb SSD makes it expensive). I don't. I want archival and I want to be able to be able to dump my data from any given month. Tape is the only way to do it. Why do you think corporations are still using tapes? I can bet you theyre not doing it to save money. 50gb might not seem like a lot, but its all I need to backup and have records for. If I was anal about backing up an entire terabyte, I'd be using 240gb AIT drives rather than the 50gb version... BHP in Adelaide has a Tape library with 32 tapes on automated feeders, 240gb per tape to backup their raid arrays - they have the need - I can get away with 50gb (and lets face it, $650 for a tape drive is not much at all - I still have a Sony DDS3 here that does a whopping 12gigs and that sucker cost $2k when it was released) Some of you guys forget that I've been doing IT for a decade and a half Raid 1 is good enough coverage for hard drive failure for a home setup. Raid 5 if you really need write speed or just cant be arsed with backups. Oh and Andrew, Raid 0+1 via a NETWORKED SATA DRIVE is not insane speed. Go get yourself raid 0 with 2 Serial Attached Scsi, 15krpm native, THAT is speed... and green drives are slow as dogs balls, thats why they have a black edition and an AV edition ;P And screw 10gigs online storage. I'd rather backup to that 50gb tape and give it to my accountant to chuck into his fireproof safe. -D Edit - I did also consider bluray dual layer as backup but decided against it because a) optical discs often use organic dye that degrades and the plastic gets scratched so I don't really hold much faith in that, and b) a single dual layer bluray disc is at present $50....

USB drives and HDD based backups are too unreliable and flash based hdd backup isnt economically viable. Tape is pretty reliable and does a significant amount of data. If i could get a 1tb flash drive to back up to, I'd consider doing it but even then thats the sort of backup in which you can't rotate the media and have restore points over the course of the year... tapes are cheap enough were you can do this. And the tape drive I'll be getting is a SATAII based model for $650 and it does approx 50GB per tape. -D

Going to start placing orders for the parts for my new system... got a $1700 budgets and am gonna get the following: Intel i7 920 CPU ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Motherboard OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Platinum 12GB RAM Powercolor 4890 1GB Radeon Zalman 850watt Modular PSU Already got the other components required but will be buying the following couple of months 150gb Raptor SATA drive (To replace the 36gb raptor drive for the Operating system(s)) 2 x WD 1TB AV HDD's (Raid 1) LG L246WHX 24" Widescreen monitor Logitech G19 Keyboard BluRay Burner AIT Internal Tape Drive And in October I'll buy Windows 7 - having played around with the release candidate I can say its pretty funky, and should run nicely with 12 gigs of ram... Now, does anyone want to buy my other kidney? -D

Pussy. Real men inhale hydrogen. -D